Crime Awareness Guide
Texas Apartment Association Education Foundation
Community Partners - Crime Awareness Guide
This electronic resource developed by the TAA Education Foundation is packed with information about crime awareness, response, and prevention.
The guide is available as a free resource for members from the TAA Education Foundation. A This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it may also be available from your local apartment association.
TAAEF Community Partners - Crime Awareness Guide:
- Offers a step-by-step blueprint for onsite managers and residents to deter crime
- Encourages the implementation of a community crime watch program
- Features information about terrorism and the rental housing industry
- Covers the most common crimes in rental housing communities and includes detailed information on gangs, drugs, and much more
- Reviews applicant screening, required security devices, notifying residents about crime, dealing with the media after a crime on a property, and much more
- Includes links to customizable forms and information sheets, sample agendas, letters, newsletter articles, and a series of "prevention pointers" to support onsite crime awareness/prevention programs
- Encourages onsite personnel to take advantage of available information resources through the use of electronic cross-references and links to websites, and
- Provides flexibility for rental housing owners in using the guide either as an electronic resource or as a printed document to which you can refer as needed.
